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On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:44:07AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 8/7/2008 10:27 PM:
> | On 08/08/2008, SungHyun Nam wrote:
> |> If a directory contains filename whose name includes capital
> |> letter, I cannot move the directory correctly from non-managed
> |> filesystem to the managed filesystem.
> |>
> |> Is it expected?
> |
> | Yes.  The munging of file names happens only for files created
> | under the managed mount.  Files created in directories outside
> | of managed mounts or created in the directory used for managed
> | mounts prior to the mount are not supported.  Try 'cp' instead.
>
> Or help out, by writing a patch to cygwin1.dll that returns EXDEV when
> attempting to rename(2) directories across managed mount points, rather
> than letting rename continue.

Since managed mount doesn't exist in 1.7.x, a patch would really not be
worthwhile.  We would not release a new version of 1.5.x just for this.

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